“When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can’t eat money.” - Alanis Obomsawin

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Cake day: August 6th, 2023

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  • Saw it today. It could have been so much more. Lots of inconsistencies regarding what the child can do.

    Pretty much a blow everything up, action, special effects type of movie. Story was okay. Somewhat original. A few emotional manipulation tricks towards the end.

    I’d give it a B-.

    Update: wanted to add the cinematography was really good. Very inspiring scenery. That was the best part. The child actor was very good too. Those were the best parts of the movie. The US Army General was one dimensional, shallow, and just a bad stereotype. Very poorly done. That was the stupidest/worse parts of the movie.



  • I second Octavia Butler.

    On my list to read, but haven’t yet, is N.K. Jemisin.

    A fairly new author is Malcom Turnbull. He was on a radio interview a while back and the book (The Lesson) sounded interesting so I gor it and read it.

    A lot of the sci-fi books I’ve been reading lately have black [main] characters. I don’t know if those authors are black though. I have to look into it.










  • Too restrictive? Yes maybe so. There are always exceptions which I haven’t verbalized in my post.

    Nevertheless, I fear if I used your method, in total I’d spend years reading samples. It’s good it works for you though.

    I read so much, I just don’t have time to invest in reading samples.

    UPDATE: I’ve been wondering why the down votes. I suspect there is tone in my response which I did not intend. I get a lot of recommendations I want to weed through to find something I’m interested in. I couldn’t possibly read all the samples. That’s all I’m saying.